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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers and philosophers who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness.  By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories or eradicating disease, acquiring wealth, overcming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.


Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. &lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Secret</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rhonda Byrne]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 08 04:35:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 08 04:36:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a lot of dodgy life guides out there that promise to solve all your problems. Take Scientology, a religion founded on a bet and bad science-fiction, or The Rules, that dating tract that advises women to play elaborate and conniving games that men are supposedly too stupid to see through. A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5886237">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <votes>44</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[absolutely no one unless you are a complete moron]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 18 15:18:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 18 15:33:49 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this website is too kind.  one star means &quot;didn't like it&quot;.  I hate, hate, hate this book with absolute passion.  sorry if you like oprah but she seriously did the world a disservice by recommending this book.  apparently there is a dvd also that i don't even think i could stomach.  so her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3238137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Toni]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 16 17:06:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 16 17:27:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend asked me to read this book and tell her what I thought. I knew Oprah had endorsed it on her show, so of course it shot right up to number 1 best seller overnight. I was already familiar with the Law of Attraction, which in a nutshell is that Like attracts Like, so if you think negatively ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15592190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="448113">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Celestine Prophecy Dropouts]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 27 08:03:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 28 12:45:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A ridiculously poorly written and assembled collection of tripe, it has no cohesive voice, no cohesive theme, and is completely facile in its subject. I literally threw the book across the room when I read, 'Quantum Physicists will tell you the universe was created from thought!'. No, numbfucker, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/448113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9565912">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ollie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[London, LO, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>13</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[NOBODY!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 26 13:09:22 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 26 13:10:56 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sure this book only exists thanks to The Da Vinci Code. Sensing a public interest in ancient &quot;secrets&quot; passed down to modern times, the publishers of this awful piece of self-help decided they could market Rhonda Byrne's book and make a killing. They were not wrong. In Brasil, it's spr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9565912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22878590">
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    <location><![CDATA[Kimberly, ID]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>12</votes>
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  <date_added>Sat May 24 12:27:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 03 18:23:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Changed my life forever. I realize how much control I have over my life, my relationships, my happiness, my circumstances...EVERYTHING. I'm totally in charge of my life and I learned and am learning how to create what I want. <br/><br/>I first read it and watched the DVD 9 months ago. I've had som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22878590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4947753">
    <user id="241838">
    <name><![CDATA[Katharine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kirkland, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>11</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those with an open mind, philosophers, physicists.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 22 11:52:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 22 12:07:22 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't interested in reading this book.  I thought from the reviews of friends that it was pretty obvious stuff.  However, I listened to the audio version.  I sort of laughed at first and thought, &quot;duh&quot;.  I promised to listen to the whole book on CD, and as I listened, the connections be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4947753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26769035">
    <user id="1313409">
    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Orem, UT]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 09 12:06:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 12 12:44:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be sure, the so-called Secret represents a financially viable means to wealth, obviously so, but let's be clear: only for Rhonda Byrnes, The Secret DVD's producer and book's author.<br/><br/>Thus, Byrnes would have you believe that the world's wealthy, distinguished and famous—every last lumi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26769035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22679506">
    <user id="844658">
    <name><![CDATA[Wendi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Gainesville, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
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  <date_added>Wed May 21 08:17:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 21 08:26:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The reason I dislike this book so much is not because of the writing, it's the idea behind The Secret that bothers me so much. Basically The Secret is that whatever you put out into the universe is what comes to you. So if you're a positive happy go lucky person you'll get all this wonderful stuff -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22679506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10858423">
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    <name><![CDATA[Caleb]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 01:14:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 05:12:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the recent publishing phenomenons has been a book, printed with pages designed to look like faded vellum and enigmatically titled The Secret. In the foreward, the author promises to reveal &quot;The Great Secret - The Secret to life&quot; claiming that it was known to Plato, Shakespeare, Newt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10858423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4359463">
    <user id="139719">
    <name><![CDATA[McWriter]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Newtonville, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>8</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 10 08:24:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 10 08:30:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ick. This book was just. So. Not believable. At the beginning, the author writes about the law of attraction, specifically that if you believe in something, it can happen - like, if you believe you will one day fall in love, marry, and have a family or if you believe you will succeed in education an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4359463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3653058">
    <user id="186804">
    <name><![CDATA[Bianca]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 30 18:13:10 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started reading this book, I really had no idea what it was about.  Maybe I live under a rock, but I didn't know that it was on Oprah's book club list.  As I read the first few pages, I felt as though the authoress was writing an infomercial... trying REALLY hard to sell me something. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3653058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45531332">
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    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 22:01:00 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 22:07:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[went to dinner with the boss lady the other night. she went on and on about this wonderful book. it was truly life changing. and she was already seeing the positive results of applying principles from it in her business and personal life.<br/><br/>she wasn't able to really articulate any ot those ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45531332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18975214">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[به همه كساني كه آرزوهاي بزرگي دارند ]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[بينا هوشمند]]></recommended_by>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 02:21:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 04 12:21:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[من اعتقاد ندارم كه تمام مشكلات ما با انديشه و انرژي مثبت قابل حل است و كتابهايي از اين دست را خرافه آميز مي دانم چيزي شبيه باورهاي ديني مختلف كه هيچ مدركي براي اثباتشا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18975214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3860735">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marnie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 31 12:22:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Call me jaded, but these people have been drinking the kool aid. Don’t get me wrong- I embrace and appreciate the power of positive thinking and believe that an optimistic frame of mind can go a long way. But, The Secret is a bit extreme. The core of The Secret is the law of attraction, which basi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3860735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13200242">
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    <name><![CDATA[Joyce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Middletown, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[No One with any brain cells that are still alive]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[A bunch of idiots]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 22 16:12:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a weak moment I succumbed! It was on sale and I too wanted to know &quot;the secret&quot; Now I know-I just think about checks every day and voila-my mailman will bring them to me! C'mon people, positive thinking has been written about in dozens if not hundreds of books and they were much better ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13200242">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jun 03 16:22:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The secret to this book is that you must be a complete and utter douchebag to find any meaning in it.  The idea that the universe conspires to give you what you want if you visualize it is ridiculous and vapid.<br/><br/>Work hard, set goals, and plan ahead if you want to achieve something.  I'm cu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1542975">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, the Secret, aka, the Law of Atttraction has a great message: like attracts like. This is of course very true in most cases. However, implicit in the teachings of the Secret is the idea that our current place in life is not good enough, that we need to create something in the future that wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45182020">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Secret is perhaps best summarized in an entirely separate work, the Strangest Secret, which is an audio presentation by Earl Nightingale where he demands “you must control your thoughts.” Rhonda Byrne then explains by controlling your thoughts and ensuring that they are of a positive nature,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15366538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Complete drivel.  There is benefit in positive thinking, but this book encourages &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking" title="The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion">magical thinking</a>.&quot;  If you want and plan for a desired object or outcome, the forces of the universe will align to make that happen for you.  <br/><br/>The logic offered as to why you don't always get what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9236217">more...</a>]]></body>
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